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had run aground on metaphysics.' H. Thurow, "Aus den Anfangen der sozialistischen
Belletristik," Die neue Zeit, 21, no. 2 (Stuttgart, 1903), PI'. 219-220. [U3,1]
Utopian socialism. "The class of capitalists ... looked on its partisans as mere
eccentrics and harmless enthusiasts . . . . These partisans themselves, furthermore,
did all that was humanly possible . .. to warrant such an impression. They
wore clothes of a very particular cut (Saint-Simonians for example. buttoned
their coats in the back so as to be reminded, while dressing, of their reliance on
their fellow man and thereby of the need for union), or else they wore unusually
large hats, very long beards, and so on." Paul Lafargue, "Del' Klassenkampf in
Frankreich," Die neue Zeit, 12, no. 2, p. 618. [U3,2J
"'Mter the July Revolution, the Saint-Simonians took over even the frontline organ
of the Romantics, Le Globe. Pierre Leroux became the editor." Franz Diederich,
"Victor Hugo," Die neue Zeit, 20, no. 1 (Stuttgart, 1901). p. 651. (U3,3]
From a report on the November 1911 issue of the journal of Austrian social democracy,
Der Kampf: '''On Saint-Simon's 150th birthday,' . .. Max Adler wrote: ...
He was known as a 'socialise at a time when this word meant something entirely
different from what it means today . ... As far as the class struggle is concerned, he
sees only the opposition of industrialism to the old regime; bourgeoisie and workers
he considers together as a single industrial class, whose richer members he
calls upon to take an interest in the lot of their impoverished fellow workers.
Fourier had a clearer view of the need for a new form of society." Review of
Periodicals, Die neue Zeit, 29, no. 1 (1911), PI" 383-384. [U3,4]
Engels on Feuerbach's -Wesen des Christentums . "Even
the shortcomings of the book contributed to its immediate effect. Its literary,
sometimes even high-flown, style secured for it a large public and was, at any rate,
refreshing after long years of abstract and ahstruse Hegelianizing. The same is
true of its extravagant deification of love, which, coming after the now intolerahle
sovereign rule of 'pure reason,' had its excuse . ... But what we must not forget is
that it was precisely these two weaknesses of Feuerbach that 'true socialism,'
which had heen spreading like a plague in 'educated' Germany since 1844, took as
its starting point, putting literary phrases in the place of scientific knowledge, the
liberation of mankind by means of 'love' in place of the emancipation of the
proletariat through the economic transformation of production-in short, losing
itself in the nauseous fine writing and ecstasies of love typified hy Herr Karl
Griin." Friedrich Engels, "l .. udwig Feuel'bach und del' Ausgang del' klassischen
deutschen Philosophie," Die neue Zeit, 4 (Stuttgart, 1886), p. 150 [review of C. N.
Starcke, Ladwig Feaerbach (Stuttgart, 1885)]." [U3a,1]
"Railroads ... demanded, besides other impossibilities, a transformation in the
mode of property . ... Up until then, in fact, a bourgeois could run an industrial
or a business concern with only his own money, or at most with that of one or two